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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-07-28
The Terrible FlSTiGa Hog.

We have seen his, long tusks divide
a dog like sword-we have seen a
panther so terribly wounded that the
poor eat crept off in despair to, die,
while the hog rocked not of flowing
blood from his own neck and shoulder,
but proudly challenged renewal of
the fight At Tocoi lately hog made
it a point to stand on the track when
ever he saw the locomotive coming,
and the considerable engineer, stopped
for four successive days to drive him
off. At last, tired of humanity which
aroused no gratitude, the train-hands
assembled by invitation 10 see that
hog demolished. He was on the track
awaiting his doom, and extra speed
was drawn from fat pine hurled into
the furnace with malice prepense.
The hog raised his head in surprise
when no stop was made. and, seeing
his danger, started at a gallop down
the track. In vain the engine rushed
forward with maddening speed till the
coaches rocked and ladies screamed in
terror-when the train reached Palatka
the hog was leisurely eating waste corn
at Vertrees' stable That hog has
since been struck by lightning, SO that
he is not for sale as a race-h"rse =
Paldtka Neers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-07-28
He Wrote beautiful Snow"

Robert McWade said to reporter,
for the Detroit Free Press:
You remember Henry w. Faxon-
Hank FaXon we boys used to call him?
All, well, then you missed knowing
one of the finest minds of your time
and mine. He was a Buffalo Journalist
a good many years, and the author of
the World-remembered Silver lake sea-
serpent hoax. He died early in the
sixties of excessive conviviality, Tr
afraid, or else his heart grew too
for his body. Shouldn't be surpri
after all, if that really was what k
him, for, next to Edwin Booth, he
the biggest-hearted man l ever k
But what | want to say and
strong, SO you'll never forget it
never doubt it, is this: That iden
Hank Faxon was the simon-l
author OF Beautiful Snow | XII
the fact; [ am familiar with all
particulars of the origin of that mu,
claimed production, and, no matt
how MANY frauds set up to the claii
of paternity, to Hank Faxon and t,
nobody else belongs whatever credit
or fame there is in it. .
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-07-28
He Laid i'm a Supply.

1t was while l was in Vicksburg starv.
ing on pea-bread, and lodging the
Yankee shells. / was detailed to 90
to the cOmmissary to do sonre work.
The boys made it part of their work
to slip something moro than was given
to them when they went to the COM
missary, and it was always s0methin 2
t0 eat which they would divide with
us thought that as it had become my
time to go | would be as good as they
had been, if the opportunity afforded.
That we were watched you need not
dou bt, and that there was reason for
stealing l need not deny. But it makes
me feel like sheep thief yes when l
think of it. When was in the,eommiss-
arg, [ could see nothing open. but bar
rel of crackers. Icould get to- nothing
better, and concluded to take a good
supply of them. In walking about the
commissary l made it convenient to
90 by the barrel of hardtacks; and slip
handful in my bosom, always watch
ing the eonmissary sergeant. worked
hard when he was looking at me. ]
never once thought about hoW many of
the crackers | was getting into my
bosom. | never noticed that my shirt
was growing to an enormous size.
l was thinking of the supper that
the boys would have that night.
Suddenly the bottom part OF my shirt
slipped out from under the waistband
of my pants The sergeant was look
/ ing at me. The situation was in can
only be imagined. was excited, and
| it seemed to me there was bushel of
the darned things spilled around me-.
The sergeant simply said: GU had a
supply, and passed on.-Atlanta Con-
| Stit Rti0n.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-07-28
All in Vain.

AS desolate bird that through darkness its
lost way is winging,
AS a hand that is helplessly raised when
Deaths sickle is swinging,
So is life! Ay, the life that lends passion and
breath TO my singing,
AS nightingale's song that is full of sweet
ness unSpoken,
AS spirit unbarring the gates of the skies
for q token.
So is love? Ay, the love that shall fall when
his piniOn is broken.
AS the tramp of the legions when trumpets
their challenge are sending,
AS the shout Of the stOrm-god when lightningS
the black sky are rending,
So is power! Ay, the power that shall lie in
the dust at its ending.
So short is our life; yet with space for all
things to forsake us,
A bitter delusion, dream from which naught
can awake us,
Till Deaths logging footsteps at morn or at
eve shall O'ertake us.
H. Rider Haggard in ALLAN Quartermain."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-07-28
RAISING PORK CHEAPLY.

We need more grass and clover, anG
less corn, upoH which to make ou1
pork. More grass and clover means
cheaper growth and less disease. just
as the great corn and pork producing
lands have been developed, has swine
disease sprung up and increased, be-
cause our swine are given % monot-
onous diet of dry, oily food. Grass and
clover are the foods of nature, and the
swine harvest them. They require
little preparation of the ground for
them, and no cultivation. When
pastured they build up, rather than cx-
haustv the land; and it cannot be sue
cessfully disputed that they are essen
tial factors in the production of the
cheapest pork. Let the pigs narrowed
in the spring be put on grass and clover
as soon as they are fit to be grazed, and
kept on them as long as they are pala-
table, and the result will be pig not
fat, but in good condition and thrifty,
that until fall has large, healthy bones
and muscle and vigorous appetite
for corn. And then it may be fed corn
largely, for this will put fat on the
large frame the pasture has made, and
the hog is vigorous enough to- digest
the corn well; and if the hog is fatted
rapidly and marketed as soon as fully
fat, it is the cheapest pork that can be
made-the cheapest, not counting loss
from disease. But swine plague rarely
invades the pasture; its fayorite place
of appearance is in the small lot, paved
with cobs and manure. The hog sum-
mered on grass and elover'is so vigor-
orous that it rarely sickens when being
fattened on corn largely, but also other
food, and in clean quarters with pure
water--A'aerico'a AgeicuItatTlst.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-07-28

mebby not half as good" replied the
giant.
wall, now, this do place me in a
straight, said the widow. Il like you
both iist the same, an l don't know
which one to take. / am in putty much
the same fix my po husband was in
when he had to decide which razor
back hog he oughter kill when he
thought jist the same of all of them
Big Bill, you air stronger, but Little
Bill you air pearter. | declare l
don't know which one of you to take
1t won't do to run race, fur Little
Bill is the fastest, an it won't do to
rassle, fur it's shore thing that Big
Bill is the best man. How air you at
poker:?"
Bout the same," said the giant.
''Ain't whit's difference" the
dwarf agreed.
WALL" said the widow, ''there is a
deck of cards here summers and spozen
we settle it that way"
The two men agreed and the woman
produced the cards.
They sat down without any visible
emotion, and while they were playing
the widow placidly rocked herself.
| After a while the two men reached
over and shook hands.
''Who won?" the widow asked.
You did, replied Big Bill.
what do you mean by that?"
Il mean that you have got the best
man-Little Bill.
''Oh, it don't made bit of difference
to me" she said. Now, let me see.
There was somthing [ wanted to say.
Oh, yes, | must know your other name
for it would be horrid to 90 by the
name of Mrs. Little Bill"
1--WE won't argy about that" said
the dwarf.
80, yes" said the widow, ''there is
something else that must be settled.
The firm must be broke up. No mat
ter how friendly you all are now, there
mout come time when Big Bill, SEEM
how happy [ am maxim you, would get
dissatisfied, so one of you, it makes no
difference which, must leave"
This idea met with approval, and
another game of poker decided that
Big Bill must leave. The next day
satisfactory settlement was made, and
Big Bill mounted on Il redish mule,
rode away. His travels ceased when
he reached lonely region of Georgia,
and there he settled down. Several
years elapsed, when, one evening as
Big Bill was sitting on a stump by the
side of a grass grown road, a canvas
covered wagon came in sight, and as
it drew near, Bill saw the tow-heads of
several children protruding from under
the covering. He got up and was on
the eve of turning away, when man
ran around from the other side OF the
wagon.
IVY, hello, Little Billr' the giant
exclaimed.
''Stay where you ARR said thedwarf,
''fur it's ALL ken do to keep from
shooting YOU"
''Jes this; [ believe you let me win
that woman on purpose.
'"Tend to your business, Little Bill,
an don't talk to ever rag tag and bob
tail you meet or I'll whale YOU agin.
should think two larrupin's day is
enough fur one man."
The giant, recognizing the voice,
said: ''Podner, I'm sorry for you, an
| wanter say that done my best at the
cards"
''Do you want her now, Big Bill?"
''Wall, no. I'm obleeged to you.
Goodbye. "-Opie p. Read $40 Aykansoac
Traveller.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-07-28

Times, than | ever saw in England in
nearly as many years. The question
arises, what is the cause? Some at
tribute it to the water, which is for the
most part hard and contains a great deal
of alkaline matter which may perhaps
affect the skin and blood. The dust,
too, is very fine and is constantly rails
ing and settling on the skin, produc-
ing irritation of the parts where the
pressure comes. | am willing to
admit most of these reasons, but con-
slider a great deal of the trouble is at
tached to the collars, which are as a
rule too light for the draft which
is put on them. The English stvle of
collar for draft is not leather faced
next to the horse, but the facing used is
manufactured expressly, and is a kind
of rough cloth, the stufing con-
sisting of ''woolen waste" OF
''shoddy." This forms softer padding
to meet the horses shoulder. A sweat
pad supplies the place of this sort of
collar, some may say, but my experience
of sweat pads is that they generally
cause 4 horse to sweat considerably
and do not absorb it so readily as cloth
or frieZe does. | have not seen any
collars so stuffed or faced in NV i'm.
mediate part of the Territory, and
should be glad to learn whether there
is firm Of harnessmakers who turn
out collars on the plan | mention. 1t
is true that these collars will not last
that is, the facing and stuffing, as
long as leather and straw do; but any
harnessmaker can soon stitch on freSu
frieze and fill up with stuffing. The
less one puts around horses meek
the less he will sweat, and excessive
sweating tends to weaken the skin A
horse whose blood is bad and out OF
sorts, everyone knows will rub a sore
quicker t,ian one in health. | think
heavier, better faced collar is needed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-07-28

The Rev. Theodore G. Williams Of
New York city has in his possession a
handsome mahogany sideboard that
once belonged to President John Adj
ans. He picked it up at the shop of
an honest Washington upholsterer who
had kept it many years in pawn for
the descendants Of the body-seryant
to whom Adams left it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-07-28
COLI.ARs FOR FARM HORSES.

| have seen more sore shoulders
among horses during the thirty months
| have been in the territory, writes Il
correspondent of the North Dakota
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-07-28

Lady shopper am looking for a
wedding present. Druggist-You
were fortunate in coming here, mad
anne. We have just laid in large
stock of the latest Understandable
HaCen News.
Mrs. Ikelstein-Run NIT der doctor,
berwick, Solomon; de bapy ish
swollowt silver tottar. Mr.. I.-Vos
it dot one | lefd on de dable? Mrs I.
Yes, dot vos it; hurry NIT der doctor
Mr.. I.-Don'd get oxcited, Rajel, it vos
goGnderfeit.-Life.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-02-24

itself. The heart that can be touched
and made glad by the experiences of
earth, surely can realize the same joy by
contact with the loving Savior of man
kind. There is no mystery, no trying Or
deals to pass through, that one does not
encounter in worldly living. a man who
has the capacity to be happy outside of a
Christian experience, would be far hap
pier if striving to live Christian life 1t
would be the same mind, under fairer
skies, the same heart and soul, washed
and purified, and cleansed from sin. To
stand back and attempt to argue ones
self out of the sense of duty i'll this mat
ter, is certainly Il wickedly strange thing
to do. 1t will not avail for us to say that
we do not like our brother, and that our
spiritual life will not begin until after his
spiritual death. Our prosecutions of an
other cannot save US, and will not destroy
him. Let US get into that condition of
mind and heart where we can praise the
Lord for the advantages he gives to his
creatures, and let us all use these advan-
tages-in whatsoever degree we possess
them-to the glory of that one who has
done so much for US.
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dared to make such offers, nor would we II we
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and but two sales day would give proht OF
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The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-02-24

The case of Mamie Holweger, the little
girl who was murdered at Franklin, Ohio.
some months ago, is again attracting at
tention, in that the third man has been
arrested charged with the crime. This
was peculiar case. When the first man
was arrested, many persons remembered
suspicious circumstances enough to al
most hang him, yet he was able to prove
that it could not have been him. Anoth-
er was arrested with like result, then the
third. 1t seems strange that so brutal a
crime can be committed in wide-awake
community, within gun-shot of the State
Capital, and yet the criminal go so long
unpunished. But, though several men
were seen wandering about the neighbor-
hood, and made the targets of suspician,
there was no positive evidence against
them. 1t seems to be part of the detec-
tive system of this country, when there is
a crime committed, to catch and convict
somebody, and it does not seem to make
much difference who. All good people
will trust, however, that the right man
will be speedily brought to punishment
for this most horrible crime.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-02-24

There is not the least shadow of doubt
but what Prohibition has wrought won
derful evil in Atlanta, Georgia. Drink.
there now, and the only reason assigned
is of course because there are no saloons
and liquor is hard to get. The saloon
business having been wiped out, the en-
tire populace set themselves to work to
devise ways and means to get drunk. But
there was difficulty in getting at scheme
which would enable them to increase
Last week, however, scheme was dis
covered which has been making the peo-
pie happy for some time past.
For several days an officer had been no
ticing the movements of colored man
who was travelling about with large
basket upon his arm. One day last week
the officer concluded to examine the bas-
ket, and found therein a regularly equip
ped travelling saloon. There were two
large bottles of whisky, several wine
glasses, bowl of sugar, a bottle of water,
and towel. This shrewd colored man
had been going about from house to house,
supplying the topers with their morning
nips, and doing a good business. The
officer found several kegs of whisky upon
the colored mans premises.
Now, we have fully demonstrated that
Prohibition in Atlanta is a complete fail
ure. "Why is it failure?" Because a
colored man was seen walking along the
the street with basket on his arm.
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Don't ExDeriment.

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A Word About Catarrh.

1T is the mucous membrane, that wonderful semi
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The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-02-24

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Mr.. D. I. Wilcoxson, of Horse Cave,
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The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-02-24

Daniel Manning, Secretary of the Trea-
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te take effect on the first Of April. Man
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ministration, and there will be much re-
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longer in office.
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